Scotiana

Bonjour! Hello again from Scotland, Marie-Agnès, Janice and Jean-Claude!
We both wish you – and all of Scotiana’s readers – bon courage and many happy times in the year ahead, which promises to be quite a difficult one.
As we write, the garden snowdrops are in full bloom, yet winter is not over. There’s a [...]

 
Bonjour Janice, Marie-Agnès et Jean-Claude  -  Hello again from Scotland!
Marie-Agnès and Jean-Claude, do you still have a subscription to The Scots Magazine, the famous journal first published in 1739?
We don’t have one ourselves, but were interested to find that the October 2011 issue contained a number of features on music in Scotland. Amongst [...]

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Bonjour, Marie-Agnès, Jean-Claude et Janice! Ca va? – How are you today?
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I wonder whether our readers have guessed that, as well as sending these occasional Letters from Scotland, Margaret and I correspond regularly with you by email? We write in English, Marie-Agnès and Jean-Claude in French, [...]

One of George Mackay Brown’s favourite words was marvellous.  He used it about the weather, his friends, music, the Dounby Show, the landscape, and about his penn’orth of sweeties and The Hotspur comic for boys.  He thought it an intense word, shorthand for the kind of state described by poets such [...]

Bonjour! Hello again Janice, Marie-Agnès and Jean-Claude!
Our tenth “Letter from Scotland” already!
We often look again at the series of articles you posted last year on the Auld Alliance, especially the description of your visit to the magical Stuart castle, the Château de la Verrerie. (Close to Aubigny-sur-Nère, an Enchanted Stuart Castle : ‘Le [...]